A podcast about books, art & life — not necessarily in that order
Heading down to Monterey Beach with my brother & his family today! Here are some links to keep you occupied or distracted:
What we talk about when we talk about real estate ads in the NYTimes Magazine.
Interview with Mark Helprin, whose Winter’s Tale I plan to read next year.
Dylan Horrocks on “literary comics”.
A review of The Iconic Building.
In case you’re sitting around bored this weekend, here’s an interview with a book designer who isn’t Chip Kidd.
Here’s a blog post by Dylan Horrocks (a.k.a. one of the finest cartoonists alive and an all-around swell guy who let me crash at his home in New Zealand a few years ago) on science and art.
And here’s the introduction to a new book on Leo Strauss. I found it pretty interesting, especially when it went into the east coast vs. west coast Straussians’ rivalry. It really heated up when they popped Biggie, that’s for sure.
I hope your weekend is exciting enough that you don’t read all this stuff.
Really long article on comics, by Charles McGrath in the New York Times. Oh, wait. It’s about graphic novels, not comics. My bad.
It actually has some good points about the narrative form, and some neat comments from cartoonists. It doesn’t really get into the finances of the business, which is integral to understanding the development of comics.
I’ll write more extensively about the subject soon, as it’s something I care about a lot. I’m not sure how such a massive article on comics can get published without mentioning (like it or not) the work of Dave Sim, who recently finished a 300-issue serial written and drawn monthly over the course of twenty-seven years, but we’ve all got our lacunae, I guess.
And it’s “McCloud,” not “McLoud.”